SRINAGAR, Apr 3: Police have arrested a man for allegedly suffocating her nine-year-old daughter to death and then slitting her throat in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, officials said on Monday.
“Mohammad Iqbal Khatana was arrested last week for the March 29 killing of his minor daughter,” a senior police officer told reporters in Kupwara, about 100 kilometres from here.
Narrating the sequence of events, he said Khatana’s relations with his wife, Nageena Begum, were strained for the last one year and they would often quarrel.
“On the day of the crime, Khatana, a taxi driver by profession, had a heated argument with his wife in the morning. After returning from work in the evening, he took a kitchen knife with the intention of committing suicide,” the officer said.
While the accused was leaving the house on the pretext of getting a punctured tyre fixed, his daughter Uzma asked him for Rs 5.
